Category Archives: Abortion Statistics

By Dave Andrusko Stories about the abortion industry’s insatiable appetite for more dead babies often come in twos and threes. On Monday we reported about how Planned Parenthood’s stealthily opened its 17th “health center” in Illinois, not

By Dave Andrusko My apologies. I had intended to quickly write Part Two, but there was so much going on last week—so many wonderful events—that I thought it best to pick up the narrative today. This is

By Dave Andrusko Tomorrow is the March for Life and next Monday is the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the dual 1973 Supreme Court decisions which wreaked havoc on American culture and

Lowest levels in decades. There are two basic sources on abortion incidence in the United States: • The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) publishes yearly, but relies on voluntary reports from state health departments (and New

WASHINGTON –The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) today released The State of Abortion in the United States, 2018. In addition to summarizing key legislative developments in the states and at the federal level, the fifth annual

By Heather Weininger, Executive Director The newly released Department of Health Services Reported Induced Abortions in Wisconsin report show a decrease in the number of abortions from 5,660 abortions in 2015 to 5,612 abortions in 2016—48 fewer

By Randall K. O’Bannon, NRLC Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. On Wednesday, Dr. O’Bannon provided a first look at “The 2016-17 Annual Report of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.” As always, what is omitted

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation 2016 turned out to be a milestone year in the history of abortion in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The year brought the lowest number of abortions ever recorded in

HARRISBURG, Pa. –The annual number of abortions has declined in Pennsylvania, bringing them to their lowest level ever recorded in the Commonwealth, according to figures released by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The figures show that, in

Laws and Local Factors Have Major Impact By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Earlier this year, we were all delighted to find out that abortions, abortion rates, and abortion ratios had dropped to